Greetings, colleagues: The CUNY Office of Professional Studies is offering two online faculty development workshops this summer. See below for registration dates and details. Best! Michelle Michelle C.Fraboni Associate Director, Center for Teaching & Learning Queens College ____________________________________________ From: Susan Ko <Susan.Ko@CUNY.EDU> Reply-To: Center for Teaching and Learning <CTL@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Date: Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 12:16 PM To: "CTL@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU" <CTL@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Subject: online workshops from SPS available to CUNY faculty this summer Hi, feel free to let your faculty know about these online workshops that School of Professional Studies is running this summer, open to all CUNY faculty‹workshops are limited in size, so faculty should register early: SUMMER 2015 ONLINE FACULTY DEVELOPENT WORKSHOPS Offered completely online in Blackboard‹for more info and to register for either of the following workshops go to http://spsfaculty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/workshops/ Multimedia Tools for Teaching and Learning, Part II: Collaborative Tools. Offered online for 8 days: June 22-30, 2015. Online or hybrid teaching provides a vital opportunity to make the course experience more engaging, and to put students in a position from which they are actively creating and not just passively receiving course content. This workshop series will introduce faculty to various multimedia and interactive tools that help make online and hybrid courses more dynamic and collaborative. Part II of the Multimedia Workshop series will introduce several collaborative tools designed to facilitate group efforts for generating or processing course material. These tools take advantage of the opportunities online and hybrid courses provide to engage students in actively creating instead of just passively receiving educational content. We will explore VoiceThread, TimelineJS, Mindomo and Diigo in conjunction with the Group tool provided in Blackboard to help you design activities in which you work with students and students work with each other in new ways. Enhancing your Classroom with Blackboard Collaborate Offered online for 11 days: July 27 ­ August 6, 2015. In this workshop, we will explore the many features of Blackboard Collaborate. Blackboard Collaborate allows instructors to enliven their courses with real-time (synchronous) sessions that can include audio and video interaction with students, an interactive whiteboard, application and desktop sharing, and breakout rooms for student groups. Collaborate provides your online class with more immediate communication and opens up new possibilities for group work and presentations for both online and face to face courses. The workshop will combine lessons and discussion in an asynchronous format with live, real-time Collaborate sessions, allowing you to get to know Collaborate while working together to design lesson-plans and assignments for immediate use in your courses. Susan S. Ko, PhD Faculty Development Director CUNY School of Professional Studies Phone: 646-664-8628